GREATER MANCHESTER (BCF PRELIMINARY ROUND)
OAKHAM
23 APRIL 1994

    ESSEX   GREATER
MANCHESTER		    
Board Colour Home team Grade Score Away team Grade Score
1 W Fred Dorn 174 1 Harry Lamb 174 0
2 B Paul Williamson 171 ½ Andrew Wilson 163 ½
3 W Peter Doye 167 0 N M S Barnaby 167 0
4 B David Millward 166 ½ Mike Abbott 164 ½
5 W Michael Ashdown 164 1 S J Grounds 169 0
6 B Colin Ramage 162 ½ Edward Goodall 167 ½
7 W Steve Harvey 162 1 Richard Clissold 160 0
8 B John Philpott 158 1 Tracey Thompson 158 0
9 W Mike Cresswell 154 ½ F Shahmir 157 ½
10 B Neville Twitchell 154 1 David Tompson 154 0
11 W Stan Harwood 153 0 B M Wood 152 1
12 B Andy King 148 1 Adam Tyton 150 0
13 W Alan Parsons 145 1 D Mobley 154 0
14 B Mustafa Rahaman 146 1 David Ashton 140 0
15 W Dave Cannan 138 1 M J E Searles 144 0
16 B Richard Weeber 133 1 J S M Lysons 136 0
  TOTAL - Home 12 TOTAL - Away 4

A surprisingly easy victory over the reigning national champions at U175 level. Essex were missing a number of regulars and David Smith had to draft in some players from the U150 squad for the bottom boards. Nevertheless the teams were evenly matched on paper. However, Greater Manchester were severely handicapped by several of their players arriving half an hour or more late, costing time on the clock that would be felt later on in the afternoon. With Fred Dorn collecting an excellent point against Harry Lamb on top board, the Essex team as a whole performed outstandingly, but nowhere more so than on the bottom boards where the five players graded under 150 all collected a full point.

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